Is Law Undermining Public Education?
Common Good launches education campaign with a forum co-hosted by Common Good and the AEI-Brookings Joint Center for Regulatory Studies
November 5, 2003
Philip K. Howard, Common Good and Robert W. Hahn, AEI-Brookings Joint Center
On November 5, Common Good and the AEI-Brookings Joint Center for Regulatory Studies co-sponsored a forum to explore how legal fear and bureaucracy are undermining the ability of teachers and principals to do their jobs effectively.
Click here to download the forum agenda.
Common Good believes that education is a human enterprise and bound to fail if
the humans involved, fearful of legal proceedings or constraints, do not feel
comfortable drawing on their personality and emotions to inspire, console and
cajole students. Panels explored the impact of legal fear constraints on our public
schools and discussed possible solutions.
The Honorable Eugene W. Hickok, Deputy Under Secretary of Education for the U.S. Department of Education and Deborah Wadsworth, Senior Advisor at Public Agenda, were the keynote speakers.
Keynote speakers: Deborah Wadsworth, Public Agenda and Hon. Eugene Hickok, U.S.
Department of Education
Other Speakers and Panelists Included:
RICHARD ARUM, Associate Professor of Sociology, New York University, Author of
the recently published Judging School Discipline.
ALAN D. BERSIN, Superintendent of Public Education, San Diego City Schools
DAN CORLEY, Head of School, Community Preparatory School
CHESTER E. FINN, JR., Senior Fellow, Hoover Institution, Stanford University
& President, Thomas B. Fordham Foundation
ROBERT W. HAHN, Executive Director, AEI-Brookings Joint Center
JANE HANNAWAY, Director, Education Policy Center, Urban Institute
FREDERICK M. HESS, Resident Scholar, American Enterprise Institute; Executive
Editor, Education Next
PHILIP K. HOWARD, Founder and Chair, Common Good
TOM LOVELESS, Director, Brown Center on Education Policy, Brookings Institution
WILLIAM OUCHI, Professor, John E. Anderson Graduate School of Management, UCLA,
author of the recently published Making Schools Work.
DAVID SCHOENBROD, Professor of Law, New York Law School; Adjunct Scholar, Cato
Institute, co-author of Democracy by Decree.
DEBORAH WADSWORTH, Senior Advisor, Public Agenda.
Click here to read about the forum in Education Week.
"Is Law Undermining Public Education?" panelists
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